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Mob finds its voice

By KATH GANNAWAY THE stage is set for VoiceMob 2014. VoiceMob leaders completed rehearsals last week for the 34 public workshops that will culminate in the...

Cruising into town

By JESSE GRAHAM A sweltering weekend couldn’t deter the spirits of more than 400 people as the annual Black Saturday Remembrance Cruise took off for...

Volte-face slammed

By JESSE GRAHAM Indoor pool issue heats up and council's... RESIDENTS are rumbling against the Yarra Ranges Council as the Healesville indoor pool issue...

Light through the darkness

IT’S been five years since Black Saturday and memories of Victoria’s blackest day are still strong. In the lead up to that fateful day, we...

Connection of shared grief

By JESSE GRAHAM COMMUNITY members are being asked to come together to reflect on a tragedy now five years past this Friday as part of...

Support from the ashes

By KATH GANNAWAY BOTH Yarra Glen and Marysville Men’s Sheds rose out of the ashes of Black Saturday. Men needed somewhere to go, something to do,...

Generosity’s the cornerstone

By KATH GANNAWAY WHEN the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal officially closed in April 2009, more than $379 million had been donated. That built to...

Days for a graze

By JESSE GRAHAM FOR a gratuitous graze of local produce and a weekend of entertainment and delicacies, there’s just one week left to wait as...

Cutting lingering stress from trauma

By KATH GANNAWAY A SERIES of workshops to be held in Yarra Glen in March and April aims to help people affected by the 2009...

Pumped up to fight to end

By JESSE GRAHAM A Narbethong firefighter and inventor has taken experience and stories from the Black Saturday bushfires and turned it into a potentially life-saving...

Forefront of fire

By KATH GANNAWAY A HEALESVILLE resident working at the forefront of bushfire management has been awarded the prestigious Australian Fire Service Medal in this year’s...

Trash treasured

By KATH GANNAWAY A WARBURTON family has called for a community conversation around hard rubbish collection in Yarra Ranges after their daughter’s new bike was...

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Exhibition for interaction

Yering Station is hosting an exhibition to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Yarra Valley sculptor’s death.  INTERACTION, an exhibition of artworks created by Ernst...